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“Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.”

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Author:John Piper

“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”

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Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.”

“Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.”

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Author:Doug Stanhope

“I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!”

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Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.”

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Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.”

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Book:On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Source: On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

“Moods should be heard but never danced to.”

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Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?”

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Book:The Loony-bin Trip

Source: The Loony-bin Trip

“A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.”

“Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.”

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.”

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Author:Johnny Vegas